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August Gailit
August Gailit (1891–1960) was an Estonian novelist and short-story writer, best known for Toomas Nipernaadi (1928) and Ekke Moor, and a founding member of the Siuru literary group of 1917.
August Sang
August Sang (1914–1969) was an Estonian poet, critic, and literary translator, member of the Arbujad circle, whose Estonian translation of Goethe's Faust is counted among his greatest achievements.
August Šenoa
August Šenoa (1838–1881) was a Croatian novelist, poet, and journalist of Zagreb, regarded as the founder of the modern Croatian novel, best known for the historical novel Zlatarovo zlato (1871).
August Stramm
August Stramm (1874–1915) was a German Expressionist poet and playwright, the leading contributor of Wortkunst to the journal Der Sturm, killed in action in World War I.
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889), French symbolist-era writer, comte, author of Contes cruels and L'Ève future, an early science-fiction novel featuring Thomas Edison and an android; died poor in Paris.
Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs, born Christopher Richter Robison in 1965, is an American memoirist and novelist best known for Running with Scissors (2002), an account of his unconventional childhood in his mother's psychiatrist's household.
Augusto de Campos
Augusto de Campos, born in São Paulo in 1931, is a Brazilian poet who founded the concrete poetry movement in the 1950s with Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari.
Augusto dos Anjos
Augusto dos Anjos (1884–1914) was a Brazilian poet from Paraíba whose only book, Eu (1912), made him one of Brazil's most read poets despite his early death at 30.
Augusto Frederico Schmidt
Augusto Frederico Schmidt (1906–1965) was a Brazilian poet, editor, and journalist of the second modernist generation, whose debut Canto do brasileiro (1928) is considered its inaugural work.
Augusto Guzmán
Augusto Guzmán (Augusto Guzmán Martínez, 1903–1994) was a Bolivian novelist, historian, and literary critic of the Generación Combativa, best known for his Chaco War novel Prisionero de guerra (1937).
Augusto Meyer
Augusto Meyer (1902–1970) was a Brazilian poet, essayist, and critic from Rio Grande do Sul, a leading figure of Gaúcho modernism alongside Raul Bopp and Mário Quintana.
Augusto Monterroso
Augusto Monterroso, born José Augusto Monterroso Bonilla, was a Guatemalan writer, master of microfiction, best known for the one-sentence story "El dinosaurio" and exiled in Mexico from 1944.
Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005) was a Paraguayan novelist, considered the most important Paraguayan writer of the twentieth century, known for Yo el Supremo and the 1989 Cervantes Prize.
Aulus Gellius
Aulus Gellius was a Roman miscellanist of the second century CE, author of the Noctes Atticae, twenty books of notes on grammar, philosophy, law, and history.
Aurelio Espinosa Pólit
Aurelio Espinosa Pólit (1894–1961) was an Ecuadorian Jesuit priest, poet, essayist, and translator of the classics who co-founded and led the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.
Ausiàs March
Ausiàs March (ca. 1400–1459) was a Valencian knight and poet writing in Catalan, regarded as the foremost poet of medieval Catalan literature and a major European voice of his century.
Ausonius
Ausonius, full name Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310 – c. 393), was a Gallo-Roman poet and professor of rhetoric from Bordeaux who tutored the future emperor Gratian.
Austin Clarke (novelist)
Austin Clarke, full name Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke (1934–2016), was a Barbadian-born Canadian novelist and essayist who won the 2002 Giller Prize for The Polished Hoe.
Autran Dourado
Autran Dourado, born Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado (1926–2012), was a Brazilian novelist from Minas Gerais known for Ópera dos Mortos and winner of the 2000 Prêmio Camões.
Ava Reid
Ava Reid (born 1996) is an American fantasy author, #1 New York Times bestselling for A Study in Drowning; debut The Wolf and the Woodsman (2021); also Lady Macbeth and Fable for the End of the World. Not the romance authors Rachel Reid or Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Avianus
Avianus, also known as Avienus, was a Roman fabulist active around 400 CE who wrote 42 fables in Latin elegiac couplets dedicated to Theodosius, commonly identified with Macrobius.
Avigdor Hameiri
Avigdor Hameiri (אביגדור המאירי), born Avigdor Feuerstein, was a Hebrew poet and novelist, the leading Hebrew World War I memoirist, who received the Israel Prize in 1968.
Avraham Shlonsky
Avraham Shlonsky (Hebrew: אברהם שלונסקי, 1900–1973) was an Israeli poet, editor, and translator, born in Ukraine, who led Hebrew poetry's transition from romanticism to modernism.
Avvaiyar tradition
The Avvaiyar tradition (ஔவையார்) is the body of Tamil literature and legend under the name Avvaiyar, an honorific borne by several distinct Tamil poetesses across different periods.
Axel Bakunts
Axel Bakunts (Ակսել Բակունց), born Alexander Tevosyan, was an Armenian short-story writer and agronomist known for stories of Zangezur village life, executed in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.
Axel Gauvin
Axel Gauvin, born in 1944 on Réunion, is a writer and linguist who writes in French and Réunion Creole and campaigns for recognition of the island's Creole language.
Ayako Sono
Ayako Sono (曽野綾子) was a Japanese Catholic novelist and essayist whose fiction explored war, society, and religion, and who chaired the Nippon Foundation from 1995 to 2005.
Ayelet Waldman (איילת ולדמן)
Ayelet Waldman (איילת ולדמן), Israeli-American novelist and essayist born 1964 in Jerusalem, author of Bad Mother, Love and Treasure, A Really Good Day, the Mommy-Track mysteries, and co-creator of Netflix's Unbelievable; wife of Michael Chabon.
Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) is a Ghanaian novelist and essayist whose fiction examines colonialism and neocolonialism, most famously in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968).
Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay Hariaudh
Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay 'Hariaudh' (अयोध्यासिंह उपाध्याय, 1865–1947) was a Hindi poet from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, known for Priyapravas, the first epic-length poem in Khari Boli Hindi.